Category: Personal Essays

• Escaping The City for a Day of Apple Picking

  

  An annual tradition: picking apples with friends.

  MultimediaLex

  October 23, 2019

  Lifestyle, Personal Essays

  apple picking, apples, autumn, black bloggers, black farmers, farms, Food, kale, maryland, pumpkin patch, recipes, washington dc

• How’s The Food In: Maryland’s Eastern Shore

  

  Find out how I ate in Eastern Shore Maryland!

  MultimediaLex

  September 11, 2019

  Food, Handy Chef Articles, Personal Essays, Travel

  breakfast, chefs, day trip, dc, dinner, east cost, easton, good food, local, lunch, maryland, meals, mussels, oxford, pescatarian, restaurant, rise up coffee, road trip, seafood, small town, usa, vegetarian

• How (and Why) I Take Care of My Indoor Plants

  

  Tending to my plants…and my sanity.

  MultimediaLex

  August 27, 2019

  Handy Chef Articles, Lifestyle, Personal Essays, Plants

  Black, black farmers, decor, DIY, farming, fertilizer, gardening, handy chef, Home Depot, indoor plants, plant care, urban

• Perfect Recipe For a Straight-Girl Crush

  

  Try this recipe at your own risk; I cannot guarantee the same results.

  MultimediaLex

  December 26, 2017

  Featured, Personal Essays, Queer Content, Writing

  Black Lesbian, Crush, Friendship, Lesbian, Personal Growth, Queer, Romance, Satire

• I Would Probably Be Great at Divorce

  

  Television’s latest reminder that divorce isn’t pretty, but also isn’t end of the world.

  MultimediaLex

  September 11, 2017

  Featured, Personal Essays, Reviews, Writing

  Black, black bloggers, Childhood, Comedy, Disney, Divorce, Marlon, Marriage, NBC, Raven’s Home, Review, Reviews, Television, writers

• Why Do I Bother Her When I Know I Don’t Want Her?

  

  SZA’s CTRL told a story I’ve lived through dozens of times. Sometimes as the victim, other times as the perpetrator.

  MultimediaLex

  July 10, 2017

  Featured, Personal Essays, Reviews, Writing

  Black, CTRL, Hip Hop, Lesbian, Love, Love Galore, Music, R & B, Relationships, Reviews, SZA

• SF Pride

  

  A brief recap of San Francisco Pride weekend.

  MultimediaLex

  June 30, 2017

  Queer Content

  Pride, San Francisco

• Master of Coming Out at Waffle House

  

  The journey of two lesbians and the American diner.

  MultimediaLex

  June 5, 2017

  Featured, Personal Essays, Queer Content, Writing

  Aziz Ansari, Black, Butch, Childhood, Coming Out, Lena Waithe, Lesbian, Master of None, Netflix, Queer Content, Review, Reviews, Story, Television